Re: efs 1.14 and XEmacs 19.12

Andy Norman (ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Tue, 18 Jul 1995 17:42:16 +0100


Mark writes:

> Is there any impetus to get efs distributed with XEmacs-19.13? 19.14?

I'd thought about asking Chuck to include efs 1.15(alpha) or 1.16(unreleased)
with XEmacs 19.13.  However, since I remember reading somewhere about 19.13
being a fast-track mainly-bug-fix release, it may not be a good idea to
introduce a large package such as efs/dired at this stage.

I'd like to get efs into 19.14 if that is a slower feature-rich release.

I'm using efs 1.15(alpha) with each new XEmacs beta release with no apparent
problems.  I believe that there are others on the efs-testers mailing list
using 1.14(beta) with XEmacs with only one or two small bug-fixes.

> Is there any advantage in using the original ange-ftp instead?

Size perhaps.  efs is a *lot* larger.  I personally binned ange-ftp 2-3 years
ago.  ;-)

> Is the dired-7.x version distributed with efs frowned upon?

Not that I know about.

I believe that Michael Sperber is helping the efs team with XEmacs-specific
features in dired-7.x.

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